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May 15, 1935
Salmon Cr. Reservoir, Twin Falls Co, Idaho.
Collected trap line at sunrise on summit of nearly peak with no success with live traps but got 5 P. ornithio + a couple of P. m. sonniensis.
The latter is more orange + has shorter tail (we had plenty of these I didn't trap them). Came back to camp & Bill was trying to get hot cakes with the wind blowing.
Worked on skinning till 1:30 I fed carcasses to "Clap Clap" the pet owl. At 2:30 Twining & myself hiked down further down. A vast difference could be seen in the bottom of the canyon compared to life above. Stream side was covered with small willow + horsebils. Bark of willower eaten by Viscagrapines.
Such birds that weren't found above in the prairie were Solinie Warblers Song Sparrow.
A small jibene-like note was heard above willows and saw a Hummer doing Powers dives over female. Thought it was "black-chinned" but thru binoculars I saw its concolorate gorget making it a Calliope.
After a while they were